Saturday, July 17, 2010

A Perfect Murder (DVD)

A Perfect Murder (1998) starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen. When financial tycoon Steven Taylor (Douglas) discovers that his wife Emily (Paltrow) is having an affair with David, an artist (Mortensen), he digs up dirt on David and tries to hire him to kill his wife. There is no such thing as a perfect murder, of course, and complications ensue. For those who aren't familiar with it, this is a '90s update of Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder." Unfortunately, it's not a very good one. In fact, this is a terrible movie. It's filled with glaring errors, logical flaws in the script that are obvious while you're watching it. Furthermore, the subtitles are poor -- hard to read and incomplete. Grade: D

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